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The police said in a statement neither the victim nor police dog required attention for any injuries.

I'm glad the dog is OK, and it's so funny to me the police felt the need to clarify that.

"If I can do it in my 70s, anyone can," she told RNZ.

"Open your heart. Just listen and learn. There is so much generosity in the Māori community that if you take a step forward, you will be met."

A strong earthquake jolted the central North Island early on Saturday.

Geonet said the 'severe' magnitude 5.9 quake happened around five kilometres southwest of Taumarunui at 4.51am.

The earthquake was nine kilometres deep and the intensity was severe.

The quake was reportedly felt across much of the North Island, including Auckland, and as far as the top of the South.

By 6am, nearly 23,000 'felt reports' had been filed to Geonet.

At least seven aftershocks, ranging between magnitude 2.7 and 3.7, followed.

Fire and Emergency said far it had recieved only a sprinkler-related callout stemming from the big quake.

Ski touring in the Craigieburn Range

After Canvas last week we are straight into another event.

You can pre-register with your Lemmy account here:

https://thebutton.social/

I don't really know how to describe it but reddit had something similar one year. You pick a team, then you try to keep the button the colour of your team. When you press the button it becomes your team's colour.

The button has a timer (I think 30 mins? Or maybe it was 10) And if it runs out the entire game is over for everyone.

And you get a very limited number of presses. Basically you get just one press ever, but they are events that might give you more. They change the rules a bit each season.

So basically you join a team, and if it's not your colour then you can press the button to make it your colour, but you need to be strategic as you may not get to press again ever. And don't let the timer run out (unless your team is winning I guess).

I missed the first one as I didn't know it was happening, and joined team Purple the next two. But I'm happy to join another colour if everyone wants to jump in to the same team colour.

Feel free to ask questions or give a better explanation of how it works!

There is virtually no bridge too far for the man behind the new Hooker Valley suspension bridge at Aoraki Mount Cook.

The marvel of design and modern engineering is due to open next week and replaces the old one that closed due to erosion caused by storms in April last year.

It spans 189 metres across the Hooker River, making it the longest suspension bridge in the country.

tldr: "our rate of emissions reduction needs more more than double" in the next two years.

Final canvas:

Was doing to gibbing in another part of the house. After checking the wall I determined I would replace a bit and found this bastard in it! A not so fun surprise but there was an obvious gap to be patched.

(Have reported)

The battle that New Zealand education forgot.

National is promising to modernise laws on sexual consent, saying there must be consent before sex every time, rather than assuming it has been given.

The party says if it is re-elected, it will ensure that consent is actively given, meaning there must be a "yes" rather than the absence of a "no".

Both Labour and Greens have called out the National party for walking away from cross party support on the issue.

The Labour Party agree the government should crack on with tightening consent laws, by supporting a member's bill Labour has already drafted.

Greens co leader Marama Davidson said if National is so keen on the safety of survivors, the party could make it happen straight away with support from the Greens and Labour.

NZ police being absolutely useless as usual. "it's a civil matter", never mind that the cat is registered in their name.

TL;DR:

• Canvas is starting 4pm: https://canvas.fediverse.events/
• Copy this URL into the template URL in the settings at 220, 120: https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/1e7f0f78-fb55-445c-8170-4f3ef44e5767.png

Hi all, it's Canvas time again! We all work together to place pixels and build an image.

Here is the template we have (decided in this post):

Copy this URL into the template URL in the settings: https://lemmy.nz/pictrs/image/1e7f0f78-fb55-445c-8170-4f3ef44e5767.png

Then set the position to 220, 120 to position it. There is a wider plan here with other people's templates: https://chocolatecakecodes.goip.de/cotemplate/ui/template/20260520-Canvas26_main

You log in with your Lemmy account by entering your instance (e.g. lemmy.nz) then your username (e.g. Dave). It sends a code to you via a message and then you enter it to prove it's your account. No password necessary!

My plan is to start with the outline of the template to clearly define our spot, then to start filling in the rest.

Any questions, let me know. I hope to see you there!

Typical bullshit from Peters, trying to manufacture anti-Māori conflict.

Acknowledging both the Māori and European discoverers of New Zealand is good. Both discoveries are, themselves for their peoples, true.

IMHO the interesting fact is that not all iwi have whakapapa that asserts Kupe as the navigator who discovered Aotearoa. Some iwi have whakapapa that asserts that it was Maui*.

This isn't a problem. Both Kupe and Maui could have independently done so. The same way that one might argue that Cook and Tasman both discovered this land mass for Britain/Europe.

* if you're interested: Maui fishing up the north island is an allegory to seeing the island rise up over the horizon as if being lifted out of the water. Maui was a navigator/wayfinder of repute, as was Kupe.

Last thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

• Something interesting that happened to you
• Something humourous that happened to you
• Something frustrating that happened to you
• A quick question
• A request for recommendations
• Pictures of your pet
• A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
• Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?